The Blind Leading the Blind

I have seen how the blind guides were laboring to make souls as blind
as themselves, little realizing what is coming upon them. They are exalting themselves
against the truth, and as it triumphs, many who have looked on these teachers as men of
God and have looked to them for light, are troubled. They inquire of these leaders
relative to the Sabbath, and they, with the object of getting rid of the fourth
commandment, will answer them thereto. I saw that real honesty was not regarded in taking
the many positions that were taken against the Sabbath. The main object is to get around
the Sabbath of the Lord and observe another day than that sanctified and hallowed by
Jehovah. If they are driven from one position, they take an opposite one, even a position
that they had but just before condemned as unsound.

God's people are coming into the unity of the faith. Those who observe
the Sabbath of the Bible are united in their views of Bible truth. But those who oppose
the Sabbath among the Advent people are disunited and strangely divided. One comes forward
in opposition to the Sabbath and declares it to be thus and so, and at the conclusion
calls it settled. But as his effort does not put the question to rest, and as the Sabbath
cause progresses and the children of the Lord still embrace it, another comes forward to
overthrow it. But in presenting his views to get around the Sabbath, he entirely tears
down the arguments of him who made the first effort against the truth, and presents a
theory as opposite to his as to ours. So with the third and the fourth; but none of them
will have it as it stands in the Word of God: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy God."

Such, I saw, have the carnal mind, therefore are not subject to the
holy law of God. They are not agreed among themselves, yet labor hard with their
inferences to wrest the Scriptures to make a breach in God's law, to change, abolish, or
do anything with the fourth commandment rather than to observe it. They wish to silence
the flock upon this question; therefore they get up something with the hope that it will
quiet them and that many of their followers will search their Bibles so little that their
leaders can easily make error appear like truth, and they receive it as such, not looking
higher than their leaders.